Dell E521

[devnull at adc.idt.com]

Felix,

We are now using 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and that *seems* to be working, no sound 
however.

> devnull at adc.idt.com wrote:
>> We bought an E521 and have similar issues.
>
> I got my E521 yesterday and can confirm some of your issues... :-(

That's too bad. I really like the machine, too bad it doesnt work that 
well.
Has anyone at Dell had the chance to install either FC or RHEL on this 
machine?

>
> FC6 ->> 2.6.18-x
>> Install will complete.
>> Broadcom 10/100 card wont work. The OS thinks its a wireless card.
>> I can boot the smp kernel. But I get lots of messages about hogging
>> interrupts.
>
> On my system, the Broadcom card works if I use the standard kernel (no
> XEN, FC6 x64). With XEN, it doesn't work.
I will try this again.

> Did you mention "wireless" because of
> $ ifup eth0
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode (8B2A) :
>    SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device.
> ...
Yes.


>
> I try document other issues (sound with XEN, booting without XEN)
> here: http://www.felix-schwarz.name/Linux_on_Dell_E521_(en)
Thanks.


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